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Subject: Re: AMD64 Faster?
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On Mon, 30 May 2005 ray@redshift.com wrote:

> Depends on what you are doing.

All the reports I have read from several lists, including some non FreeBSD 
ones, seems to show AMD64 doing significantly better on data intensive 
operations.

In a PostgreSQL list I read reports of 1.5 to 2.0 times the performance of 
Intel CPU of the same speed.